Which of the following are exceptions to the rule that a complainant's sexual history cannot be entered into evidence or cross-examined upon? Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 sets out the exceptions where a court may give leave for evidence of a complainant's sexual history to be admitted or for them to be cross-examined upon it.
A) There are other witnesses corroborating the evidence about the complainant's sexual history
B) If the issue is one other than consent
C) The sexual behaviour forming the sexual history is at or about the same time as when the offence allegedly occurred- such that the similarity cannot reasonably be explained as a coincidence
D) To rebut the Prosecution's evidence about the complainant's sexual history
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